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Post by chrom on Feb 3, 2021 16:07:50 GMT -5
Sky's figure just announced
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Post by FinalGwen on Feb 3, 2021 16:11:43 GMT -5
With the SCU figures, at least the Bucks will able to able to finally find some AEW figures in stores warming the pegs.
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Post by chrom on Feb 3, 2021 16:20:20 GMT -5
Page was just announced
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Post by Cyno on Feb 3, 2021 16:39:55 GMT -5
You kinda had to have Kaz and Sky figures since they were the first tag champs. But those are the figures I'm far and away the least interested in compared to any other figures released so far in any of the waves.
Now watch as they become like the Wave 1 Brandi figure and turn from assumed duds to hot collectors' items.
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Post by chrom on Feb 3, 2021 16:52:31 GMT -5
That's all of them. Oddly no females amongst them. Thought Shida would've had a figure
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Post by Cyno on Feb 3, 2021 17:37:07 GMT -5
Still surprised we haven't had Nyla Rose or Shida figures yet. Riho and Brandi need some company.
Also the Hangman Page figure comes with booze accessories. I need this yesterday.
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Post by Chainsaw on Feb 3, 2021 23:45:54 GMT -5
I mean, unless Wave 6 is going to be nothing but female figures, I'm beginning to get really concerned about AEW and Jazwares' plans on how they're releasing figures. I get everyone in this wave is popular, but a second Page figure already? It just makes me scratch my head on what they're doing here.
They even have turned the fact that there isn't many female wrestling figures into a mini Twitter feud on Britt Baker's side. They're definitely aware. I'm just wondering if they're going to do something about it soon.
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Post by moxfan1 on Feb 4, 2021 3:14:13 GMT -5
I mean, unless Wave 6 is going to be nothing but female figures, I'm beginning to get really concerned about AEW and Jazwares' plans on how they're releasing figures. I get everyone in this wave is popular, but a second Page figure already? It just makes me scratch my head on what they're doing here. They even have turned the fact that there isn't many female wrestling figures into a mini Twitter feud on Britt Baker's side. They're definitely aware. I'm just wondering if they're going to do something about it soon. The thing is these waves are planned out 9 months before their released. So when they did wave 4 and 5 in late 2019 early 2020. They weren't sure yet if Britt Baker, Nyla Rose or Shida were gonna be top woman in that division or not. So out side of the champ Riho there was a lot of uncertainty in AEW woman division. So it's hard to say let's go rush out a new toy for that person. Especially if you don't know who's popular or what will sell. Jake Hager doesn't have a toy out get. Probably because they don't see it being hot seller and won't rush it out. Or at least not same level as Orange Cassidy or Darby. Well they probably felt same about Shida, Nyla Rose and Baker at one point too. So wave 6 won't be all woman since things are already planned in advance. But as you mention they realized they need more girl figures. But it's going to take a few waves for them to catch up and release more woman. As for why there's repeat figures? It's smart business by Jazwares. If they realized whole AEW roster without repeats it would be done by what wave 10 or 12? So now you get 4 original figures per wave and 2 repeats of top stars. That way you spread out whole roster over 20 something lines and keep demand up.
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Post by Mozenrath on Feb 4, 2021 6:23:13 GMT -5
I do know that they've said Kylie Rae was going to have an early figure. Considering how quickly she fell away from AEW, that's a good indication of how long this stuff takes.
Granted, none of this is news to people who collect, say, Marvel figures, considering how the movie ones often either differ in details from movie designs or come out like a year after the film. They have to use concept art usually since even Hasbro's relationship with Disney can only grant them so much warning on what final designs will look like. They have to get the figures out around the time of the movie, and even with Hasbro being a much bigger company than Jazwares, there's only so much you can do to speed it up.
All that being said, damn, I want a Nyla, so I hope that is coming soon.
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Post by Cyno on Feb 4, 2021 13:41:56 GMT -5
Yeah, I think people are underestimating how far in advance it takes these figures to be made from conception to production. Especially as Jazzwares isn't a superlarge company like a Hasbro or a Mattel and their figures are pretty intricate in terms of detail and points of articulation.
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Post by toodarkmark on Feb 4, 2021 14:31:15 GMT -5
The head guy addressed it.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Feb 4, 2021 18:23:48 GMT -5
The head guy addressed it. Mayve they'll do an upcoming All Women line, Baker, Shida, Abadon, Swole, Anna Jay? Seems easy enough to do. Jade might also be a possibility.
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Post by Dr. Bolty, Disaster Enby on Feb 4, 2021 18:46:50 GMT -5
The head guy addressed it. Mayve they'll do an upcoming All Women line, Baker, Shida, Abadon, Swole, Anna Jay? Seems easy enough to do. Jade might also be a possibility. Yeah, that is not going to happen. Unless maybe if it's a store exclusive, or a four- or five-pack (also a store exclusive), but if it requires new/specific tooling, then that's less likely. It isn't right, it isn't good, but - no more than one per wave, and then one per case in a given wave, is going to be the norm for the foreseeable future. Black Widow is a household name character, and she only ever got better treatment than that for the toyline of her own movie. Transformers has done a sort of soft reboot that has included bumping up female Transformers to about one per wave, but definitely never more than that. My being pedantic about this may come as a contrast to my ranting about the women's placement on AEW TV, but...well, this sort of thing is just so utterly normal in the action figure landscape. It happened with Star Wars, it happened with Marvel back in the day - new fans means new people getting exposed to the same problem. AEW TV is below par for women in mainstream US wrestling, but Jazwares is business as usual for women in action figure lines. I feel like demands for specific wrestlers (who are women) are going to be a better tack than the more general cry, in this case. To pull from the Avengers example above, Marvel may not have made as many Black Widows as they have made Captain Americas and Iron Mans, but they also got around to characters like Hellcat, Elsa Bloodstone, and Jocasta (if you haven't heard of any of them, that's part of my point) because there were requests for those individual characters in the fandom. EDIT: I realized after posting that Hellcat has shown up in Jessica Jones (forget if that name ever came up), but she got a toy well before that was even announced.
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Post by AEW19 on Feb 5, 2021 13:42:52 GMT -5
This is some top trolling 😂😂
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Post by AEW19 on Feb 5, 2021 17:20:32 GMT -5
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Post by Cyno on Feb 5, 2021 20:06:09 GMT -5
At least we're getting a Britt figure. Now we just need to get Shida and Nyla.
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Post by Mozenrath on Feb 5, 2021 20:28:06 GMT -5
Ringside Collectibles exclusive?
Are those difficult to get? I do really want suited Cody, and Britt's a plus. Hmm.
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Post by toodarkmark on Feb 5, 2021 21:45:47 GMT -5
I mean, I'm so into suit Cody and a Britt figure like whoa.
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Post by SHAKEMASTER TV9 is Don Knotts on Feb 5, 2021 22:17:54 GMT -5
Jeremy clarified on Twitter it was a prank on Britt Barker that Britt and Cody are in a 2-pack together. Before anyone gets upset, Britt is in a 2-pack, Cody is in a 2-pack, but just not together. Britt is also getting a single release.
Ringside Collectibles are generally not too hard to get an order in. They do tiers so, the first preorders ship at an earlier date, then they put up second preorders up ship on a later date. You pay the item upfront, not when it ships though.
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Post by toodarkmark on Feb 5, 2021 22:53:14 GMT -5
Jeremy clarified on Twitter it was a prank on Britt Barker that Britt and Cody are in a 2-pack together. Before anyone gets upset, Britt is in a 2-pack, Cody is in a 2-pack, but just not together. Britt is also getting a single release. Ringside Collectibles are generally not too hard to get an order in. They do tiers so, the first preorders ship at an earlier date, then they put up second preorders up ship on a later date. You pay the item upfront, not when it ships though. *please let it be Baker-Shida please let it be Baker-Shida*
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